Shavkat Mirziyoyev offers condolences to Ethiopian President and UN Secretary-General on Ethiopian Airline plane crash

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev expressed sincere condolences to Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde and UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the death of passengers, including 19 UN personnel and crew members of the aircraft, who died as a result of a plane crash on March 10.

The plane, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, lost contact at 8:44 a.m. local time, six minutes after taking off from Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital.

Flight ET302 went down near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa. The victims were of 35 different nationalities.

Nineteen United Nations staff members were among those killed, according to a UN statement. The victims worked for the World Food Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees, the International Telecommunications Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Organization for Migration in South Sudan, World Bank and UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, and the UN Office in Nairobi.